Soil Management for Sustainable Agricultural Intensification in the Himalayan Region

Maintaining and where feasible restoring soil carbon stocks is part of all sustainable development strategies that have a chance of meeting the global commitment of the Paris Agreement to contain global warming within a 1.5<sup>o</sup>C limit. Active policies to incentivize increased soil carbon storage require understanding of the drivers of soil carbon decline, as well as the conditions under which soil management leads to an increase. Soil carbon transitions -- shifts from decline to increase of soil carbon stocks -- have been recorded as part of agricultural intensification. Organic inputs supporting soil carbon may primarily depend on roots, rather than aboveground inputs, and thus on the choice of crops, trees, and grasses that make up an agricultural land use system.

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Cattle, Sheep/Goats and Pigs from Northern and Central Hampshire: Iron Age, Roman and Early Saxon Faunal Remains from Excavation Assemblages

Hampshire Studies ◽

10.24202/hs2020016 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 75 (1) ◽

pp. 255-272

Author(s):

Anthony C. King

Keyword(s):

Iron Age ◽

Agricultural Intensification ◽

Animal Husbandry ◽

Faunal Remains ◽

Wool Production ◽

Animal Economy

This paper is a survey of overall species counts from northern and central Hampshire sites, of Iron Age, Roman and early Saxon date, and their implications for chronological changes in animal husbandry and diet. Three zones, around Basingstoke, Andover, and central Hampshire, are compared with each other, and also with the Roman urban centres of Silchester and Winchester. The Andover region shows the greatest degree of continuity from Iron Age to Roman times and later, while the Basingstoke region has a pattern of change from sheep/goat dominated assemblages to ones with higher cattle numbers. This may be due to agricultural intensification, and an orientation of the animal economy in northern Hampshire more towards the Thames Valley and supply to Silchester, than an earlier 'Wessex pattern' more focussed on sheep and wool production.

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Agricultural intensification and fertilizer use

10.2499/9780896298811_05 ◽

2016 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)

Keyword(s):

Agricultural Intensification ◽

Fertilizer Use

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Land and soil management Promoting healthy soils for healthier agricultural systems

10.2499/9780896295827_05 ◽

2016 ◽

Keyword(s):

Soil Management ◽

Agricultural Systems

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Cyathodium denticulatum Udar et Srivastava: A rare liverwort new to Chhattisgarh, Central India

Current Botany ◽

10.25081/cb.2020.v11.5882 ◽

2020 ◽

pp. 171-174

Author(s):

Ashwini Kumar Dixit ◽

Mery Aradhna Kerketta

Keyword(s):

Rare Species ◽

Biosphere Reserve ◽

Central India ◽

Himalayan Region ◽

Taxonomic Description ◽

First Time ◽

Eastern Himalayan Region

This article reports the occurrence of the thalloid liverwort Cyathodium denticulatum Udar et Srivastava was collected first time from the Achanakmar – Amarkantak Biosphere Reserve (AABR) Bilaspur, Chhattisgarh. It is shown that Cyathodium denticulatum a narrow Himalayan endemic has been reported earlier from Darjeeling, India. There is no record of its occurrence from central India. Cyathodium denticulatum is a rare species known only from eastern Himalayan region. A key to related Indian taxa and taxonomic description is provided.

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